You Don’t Need More Salsa Lessons – You Need a New Perspective

I developed my Social Dancer Mentorship programme for those who have struggled to learn and improve their skills via mainstream Salsa clubs and classes.

If this is you you may be rapidly losing faith in your own dance potential and ability to reach the goals you had right at the start.

You might be beating yourself up and blaming yourself.

 But what if it wasn’t your fault?

What if doing “more” wasn’t the answer?

What if it wasn’t you that wasn’t up to the job, but the approach you’ve been using?

You Don’t Need More Superheroes – You Need a Strategy

You need to DROP all the Salsa baggage and previous learning you’ve acquired to date.

Mostly this is what’s preventing your progress and keeping you stuck in that plateau because it includes all the bad habits you embedded during the early days, as well as the limiting beliefs you have carried along the way.

You need to DITCH the Salsa Superheroes you’ve been following on YouTube and Instagram.

Although it’s great to be inspired, just copying their moves and cloning their style stops you from developing your own signature trademarks.

So don’t expect to come into my studio with a routine you did in someone else’s class and ask me to show you how to make their moves work.

You need to DUMP the stories you’ve told yourself about what you think is holding you back as the truth is probably something very different.

The way I do things is radically different to most other teachers out there.

You Don’t Need More Confidence – You Need a Better Mindset

About 90% of becoming a good dancer is winning the battle between the ears, and sticking with it for long enough.

Success or failure really boils down to acquiring the attitude, beliefs, confidence and discipline you need to keep showing up and working on yourself.

To not get disillusioned and down on yourself when things feel challenging.

To have a strategy that keeps you focused when life gets in the way, and helps you to conquer those moments of self doubt that we all struggle with.

To navigate the social dance scene and tick the boxes of fun and connection, without falling into comparing yourself to others and letting this trash your fragile confidence.

You Don’t Need More Routines – You Need Improvisation Skills

I don’t teach routines in private lessons – if you’ve read any of my stuff you’ll know that I believe routines are not that useful and actually delay your journey towards creative, improvisational social dancing.

I’ll open the gateway to you hearing and actually feeling the music at the emotional level you need in order to be able to dance spontaneously from the heart.

This deeper connection will enable you to develop your own style and feel confident expressing yourself on the dance floor.

This is because pre-choreographed routines are a PERFECT vehicle for performance based dances such as Ballet and Ballroom.

However, although they are an easy way for instructors to teach large groups, they do not teach the main key skill you need for the social dance floor:

IMPROVISATION!

But there are other reasons as well.

It’s a process which I’ve designed to remove all the stumbling blocks before they actually occur, and it will very likely involve you relearning some of the fundamentals in order to execute moves and combinations with more skill, incorporate more musicality and expression, and enable mastery of more complex material much faster in the long run:

1. The human brain has very limited capacity for memorising sequences of moves in this way, resulting in increased pressure and overwhelm.
2. Routines do not teach followers how to trust the lead and reciprocate the connection.
3. Leaders who rely on routines tend to always link the same moves in the same way, in the same order, resulting in boring and predictable dances.
4. Dancers tend not to develop their own creative potential and remain in a consuming, copying mindset.
5. Leaders who are mostly focused on remembering their next move are not fully present with their partner.
6.  Routines do not help you develop musicality – they disconnect you from it, especially in novice and beginner dancers.
7. Routines reward the wrong skills, training dancers to prize performance and automation over connection and creativity.

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And to give all the depth and detail typically omitted by club based teachers catering for the masses.

And to create a truly personalised experience that will help you reach the level you desire much faster.

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